Laravel is a free, modern, open-source full-stack web framework with powerful features based on PHP programming language, MVC pattern, and Symfony. Taylor Otwell created Laravel. It provides a basic starting point for creating your fresh application or project. It takes you to the next-level experience and enhances the career skills of your web developer.
Laravel also provides an amazing way to interact with databases using raw SQL, a fluent query builder, and the Eloquent ORM. Currently Laravel support four databases: MySQL 5.7+, PostgreSQL 9.6+, SQLite 3.8.8+ and SQL Server 2017+. Once you install Laravel on your machine, you can configure your database in .env and config/database.php files.
Basic Requirements
Before installation begins, you must have PHP and Composer installed on your computer devices or virtual machine. Laravel Docs
| Laravel version | Release date | PHP version |
|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | June 1, 2014 | ≥ 5.4.0 |
| 5.0 | February 4, 2015 | ≥ 5.4.0 |
| 5.1 (LTS) | June 9, 2015 | ≥ 5.5.9 |
| 5.2 | December 21, 2015 | ≥ 5.5.9 |
| 5.3 | August 23, 2016 | ≥ 5.6.4 |
| 5.4 | January 24, 2017 | ≥ 5.6.4 |
| 5.5 (LTS) | August 30, 2017 | ≥ 7.0.0 |
| 5.6 | February 7, 2018 | ≥ 7.1.3 |
| 5.7 | September 4, 2018 | ≥ 7.1.3 |
| 5.8 | February 26, 2019 | ≥ 7.1.3 |
| 6 (LTS) | September 3, 2019 | ≥ 7.2.0 and ≤ 8.0 |
| 7 | March 3, 2020 | ≥ 7.2.5 and ≤ 8.0 |
| 8 | September 8, 2020 | ≥ 7.3.0 and ≤ 8.0 |
Installation
Open the terminal in your desired location to install a fresh Laravel application and run the following command:
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Install via composer
Composer is a dependency manager which deals with PHP packages or libraries.
composer create-project laravel/laravel project_name -
Using Laravel Installer
For the first time on your machine, you need to install the Laravel Installer via Composer:
composer global require laravel/installerThis command activates Laravel Installer acts as global Composer dependency.
Then, every time when you create a new Laravel project you have to run the following command:
laravel new project_name
Once you have the Laravel application on your machine, jump to the project folder and run the artisan command as shown below:
cd project_name
php artisan serveNow, open your web browser at: http://127.0.0.1:8000 endpoint. Then, you will be redirected to the default Laravel welcome page.
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